trouble with Espeak and ALSA

[Halim Sahin]

Hi Hermann,

See the asound.conf file (attached to my previous mail).
You can create such a file in /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc.

BR.
Halim

On Mo, M?r 10, 2008 at 05:26:51 +0100, Hermann wrote:
> am Mo 10. M?r 2008 um 16:57:13 schrieb Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at 
> t-online.de>:
> > > > I am using Speech Dispatcher 0.6.6 with espeak 1.31 and alsa under 
> > > > OpenSUSE.  Whenever a sample is played, the first few frames of speech 
> > > > are 
> > > > cut off, so I lose the first syllable or two of each utterance.  This 
> > > > does 
> > > > not happen if I run espeak directly.  Has anyone else run into this?
> > >  
> > > Did you upgrade Alsa utils in the last days? If so, try to downgrade 
> > > including the libasound files. There must have been something broken in 
> > > the 
> > > packages
> > 
> > You don't need a downgrade!
> > Today I played with my old Pentium III running with speechd
> > (espeak/ibmtts).
> > I have experienced the same problem.
> > So I changed the    buffer_size to 3000 in asound.conf and all works.
> > Here is my asound.conf as attachment.
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> Which asound.conf? I cannot find such a file. I use GRML.
> Hermann
> 
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